Holder.



G. H. & B. A. MANN.

HOLDER.

APPLICATION PILEDJUNE 9,1908.

Patented Dec. 29,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFioE.

GEORGE H. MANN AND ETTA A. MANN, OF ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN.

HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 9, 1908.

Patented Dec. 29, ieos.

Serial No. 437,605.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE H. MANN and ETTA A. MANN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at St. Johns, in the county of Clinton and Stateof Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for the use of seamstresses, and theobject of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap and effectivedevice comprising a plate having hooks adapted for the reception of asecuring tape by which the device is retained upon the person of thewearer, the plate being provided with a cushion for the reception ofpins, a plurality of upturned spaced fingers for holding sewingimplements, such as scissors, thimble and a spool of cotton, the platebeing also provided with an outturned portion upon one of its sideshaving a head provided with inclined inner edges adapted to serve asmeans for holding the thread and having sharpened inner edges forsevering the threads when desired.

With these objects in view the invention resides in the novelconstruction of elements and their arrangement in operative combination,hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of thedevice in applied position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is an end elevation ofthe same. Fig. 5 is a sectional view upon the line 55 of Fig. 2.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 1 designates the improvedholder. This holder is preferably constructed of a plate of suitablematerial having a central or body portion 2 and ends 3 of anapproximately greater width than the body. The ends 3 are of anapproximately circular formation, and one of these ends is provided witha plurality of annular spaced perforations adapted for the reception ofa securing cord by which a cushion 4 is retained upon the device. Thiscushion 4 may be constructed of any desired material and is adapted forthe reception of pins, needles or the like. The ends 3 are both providedwith integrally formed rearwardly extending hooks 5, and

these hooks are adapted for the reception of a suitable tape 6 by whichthe device may be held in position around the neck of a user, as clearlyillustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The end 3 opposite the endprovided with the cushion 4 has its lower portion provided with aforwardly extending approximately right angular finger 7. This finger orextension 7 is carried forward from the body of the plate a suitabledistance and is then bent upwardly in a right angular direction. Thevertical portion 8 is provided with a reduced tongue 9, while theportions of the body upon opposite sides of the tongue are bent inopposite directions to provide a rest for a spool of cotton 10. Thisspool 10 has its central opening positioned upon the tongue 9 as clearlyillustrated in the figures of the drawings. The end is also providedwith a forwardly extending portion 11 arranged upon its edge at anapproximately right angle to the extension 7, and this portion 11 isprovided with an enlarged head 12 extending from above and below theedges of the extension. The head 12 is provided with a rearwardlyextending portion slightly spaced away from the portion 11 and adaptedto provide a slot to hold the thread, while the lower portion of thehead extends at a slight angle towards the plate 1 and has its inneredge sharpened to provide a cutting face whereby cotton from the spool10 may be readily severed.

The body portion 1 is provided with a pair of integrally formed loops 13and 14. The loop 14 is arranged along side the loop 13, and atapproximately the center of the plate. The loop 14 is adapted for thereception of scissors or the like, while the loop 13 provides aretaining means of such arupon the opposite end of' the plate, and an 1In testimony whereof we affix our signaangular portion provided with anenlarged tures in presence of two Witnesses head havin' its u er andlower ortions extending i wardb owards the plaEe at an 5 angle towardsthe angular projecting portion and having one of the edges of this pro-Witnesses:

jecting portion sharpened substantially as e' CHARLES M. MERRILL,

described. THEO. H. TOWNSEND.

